Police: Children were left home alone, on the roof

9:36 AM,
Jun. 17, 2013

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Iowa City Press-Citizen

An Iowa City woman has been charged with child endangerment after allegedly leaving her four children home alone.

Iowa City officers responded to the residence of Norma Barraza Cardona, 31, at the Forest View Trailer Court at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday for a welfare check after a caller indicated seeing children home alone and on Cardona's roof, according to a police complaint.

Officers arrived to find one child who said his 6-year-old sister was on the roof and had since "run off," according to the complaint. ...